Window View Options saved without having to manually set each one of them?

Question

Hello!
I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger.
Okay, why do my finder window views change across all finder windows once I change the view of one?  I prefer to have some windows to be viewable by icon, but I want some to be viewed as a list.  In Tiger, my settings for every folder that I opened were saved specifically to the folder based on how I last viewed them.  Under Snow Leopard, when I open one folder and get List view, I change it to Icon view only to have every other folder automatically set to Icon view.  It's like I have to manually save every single finder winow with the preference I want to view it in, whereas Tiger automaticaly remembered how I last viewed each window.  This is quite annoying.
Thanks!

Answer 1

The inherit thing is not, and I repeat not, quite the same behavior in versions before Snow Leopard.
Not exactly, no; but the principle is the same: the child inherits the parent's characteristics.
In OS 9 it was even more so in at least one way - if you changed the size/shape of the parent folder's window (making it tall and narrow, for example), the initial window for a folder created thereafter in the parent folder would match the altered size/shape of the parent. That doesn't happen in Lion, maybe not in Snow Leopard (can't boot into it right now to check).
I go back to '86 on Macs, to a Mac Plus. I've used every OS version from then up through OS 9.2.2, including all point updates. I've owned most generations of Macs, with the glaring exceptions of the G3 Beige/Platinum models and the G5 models.
I think my favorite OS is OS 9.1. I stayed using OS 9.1 (on a G4 (DA) model) for as long as I could - its software still does what it used to do, and I still use that machine for a lot of things. What made me finally get a newer machine running OS X was the net - too many sites, like BBC, became unavailable with OS 9. I jumped straight from OS 9 to Snow Leopard, skipping the intermediates.
Frankly, I don't like OS X all that much. It's too pre-defined, not enough customizations available - like the creators of it felt like they had better knowledge of what my workflow needs are than I do.
And, an alert in case you haven't come across it yet - in Lion there is no Save (beyond an initial Save wherein you name and place the doc) or Save As (none at all). "Save" is automatic now - you can no longer close a doc and choose to not save changes as a quickie undo; however, you can revert to previous versions if you happened to remember to 'Save a Version' before making changes to the doc. There is a Duplicate menu item which can lead to the same result as a Save As - but takes more steps to get there. Nuts. I can see no improvement in these changes, no increase in convenience, no reason for them at all.
But there they are. And, I expect that in time I'll get used to a change in the way I do things. But I do not like having that change mandated.